2025 Research Seminar Series

Held throughout the Fall 2025 semester
Fridays 11:00 am - 12:00 pm in IRB 0318 (Gannon) and on Zoom

The Research Seminar Series provides an introduction and an overview of the deep and diverse computer science research activities occurring in the department and across campus.

Schedule

Date Speaker Title

September 5, 2025

Michelle Mazurek

Revisiting what it means to be Usable: Human-Centered Security Beyond End Users

September 12, 2025 Chris Metzler

Imaging and Sensing in Extreme Conditions

September 19, 2025 Marine Carpuat

A Human-Centered Approach to Trustworthy Machine Translation

September 26, 2025 Abhinav Bhatele Training at Scale: GPU Systems Driving Advances in LLMs and GNNs
October 3, 2025 Zhicheng Liu

Example-Driven Data Visualization in the Age of Human-Centered AI

October 10, 2025 Furong Huang Rethinking Test-Time Thinking: From Token-Level Rewards to Robust Generative Agents
October 17, 2025 Han Shao

Probably Approximately Precision (Hallucination) and Recall (Mode Collapse) Learning

October 24, 2025 Ramani Duraiswami

Towards Auditory General Intelligence

October 31, 2025 Fumeng Yang Human-Model Interaction in Public Sectors
November 7, 2025

Alan (Zaoxing) Liu

Rethinking Cloud-Scale Telemetry from an Approximation-First Perspective
November 14, 2025 Sarah Wiegreffe

Interpretability as the Inverse Machine Learning Pipeline

November 21, 2025 Can Firtina

Enabling Real-Time Analysis of Human Genomes via New Algorithms and Architectures

November 28, 2025 Thanksgving break  
December 5, 2025

Mihai Pop

Analytic pipelines are impacted by and create errors in biological databases

December 12, 2025 Bahar Asgari 

From Sparse Patterns to Smart Acceleration: Machine Learning Methods for the Future of Computing

Professor Ramani Duraiswami organizes this seminar series. Department of Computer Science graduate students can register for CMSC 801 to get one credit for attending the seminar series.